Tales from Duty Finder: Some make you laugh, some make you cry. Let's vent.

[TyrTry]

Some weeks back when leveling a dps (and doing very well I might add) I kept getting these AST who fed all cards to the tank. The tank stance tank.

You know, that sounds like a friend of mine. He was just learning AST and I noticed that while helping him...I kept getting Ewer. As a DRK. Which doesn't work. Along with Balance, Arrow, and Spear. His reply?

"I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M DOING!"

[KageTokage]

It's like the game knew how much healing undergeared tanks as AST stresses me out, so it threw me into a Castrum Abania with one in mostly Shire gear, along with two DPS who had never done the instance before.

The latter two were scarcely pushing 1K DPS, which meant the pulls/bosses dragged on for ages and were seriously taxing my MP.

By some miracle, I managed to get through without wiping in spite of that. It was particularly bad at the second boss, as they kept killing themselves on the elemental shield, meaning me and the tank were repeatedly getting blown up for 17K damage due to one of the Overflow circles being left empty, but I underestimated how effective Celestial Opposition/Time Dilation can be when they're used for sustainability instead of DPS boosting..

In the end, they were all nice enough to commend me, so it felt worth it overall.

[Mocita]

I might as well just roll WHM for 8 man content now.

And now your co-healer is a Diurnal Healer and won't switch to Nocturnal because "They used to be a WHM main and don't know how to Scholar."

[Gemina]

I guess there's a first time for everything. My roulette last night did not meet the DPS check on Ifrit's nail phase.... in normal mode. Twice

I wasn't even mad. I couldn't stop laughing. This was of course after I explained that the nail must go down, placed the '1' marker, etc. After the second Hellfire wipe though, I had to tell them that if they can't do this, they are going to have some serious trouble down the road. That seemed to do the trick^^

[KaivaC]

Had a queue in progress for my trial roulette, but it was 37m in progress.

My mind went blank for a moment, because I was wonderful why a trial of all things was 37 minutes in progress. I assumed it was Steps of Faith, so I queued expecting the very worst.

The trial was the newest 4.3 one. -_- I get that some folks are new to it, but damn. 37 minutes in progress, for a trial that really isn't that much harder than Susano. Dunno what went wrong, because a vote abandon went off, and though I said no, it went through anyways. It makes me curious how badly that group was playing.

[Averax]

Had a queue in progress for my trial roulette, but it was 37m in progress.

My mind went blank for a moment, because I was wonderful why a trial of all things was 37 minutes in progress. I assumed it was Steps of Faith, so I queued expecting the very worst.

The trial was the newest 4.3 one. -_- I get that some folks are new to it, but damn. 37 minutes in progress, for a trial that really isn't that much harder than Susano. Dunno what went wrong, because a vote abandon went off, and though I said no, it went through anyways. It makes me curious how badly that group was playing.

Some people aren't good at pattern recognition. As well as walking and chewing gum at the same time. And that's pretty much what all fights are in this game.

[Mesarthim]

And now your co-healer is a Diurnal Healer and won't switch to Nocturnal because "They used to be a WHM main and don't know how to Scholar."

Knowing my luck that is a sad possibility. It's become a slight joke with some people with how bad my DF luck is at times. Sure it's not ALL bad but which god did I anger?

It all boils down to "I like ast but I DESPISE being paired with an AST".

[TheMightyMollusk]

I think I was in that run! And yeah, it was....not great.

After the vote abandon, I re-queued for the roulette and got it again with a couple of the same people. Co-tank this time was a warrior who immediately turned on Defiance, so I assumed he wanted MT....but he didn't budge. Group started getting antsy, so I did a ready check. Everyone else was ready.....but the warrior never responded. So I threw on Grit and jumped in. Fight was going pretty well for a couple of minutes, then suddenly the warrior wakes up and immediately pulls her off me without a word.....turning her cone attack into the party, because he didn't even wait until he was in front of the boss to Provoke. Rather than trying to start drama in the middle of a fight, I just kinda shrugged and Shirked him. But then he eats every single mechanic, dies, and I ended up tanking the boss anyway. Until the healers both die to fans and we wipe.


Second attempt, the warrior starts in Deliverance, so I go for the pull.......and again, he does nothing for a minute or so, then jumps in and rips her off me again (but at least he remembers to go in front of the boss first this time). At this point I just want it over with, so again, I Shirked and let him have her. Until he dies again....and then the healers both die again, to the same thing as before....

Third time, I decide to just ask if he wants MT, since he keeps pulling off me anyway. He finally actually responds! And then he dies almost immediately again. And the healers ALSO both die again.

By this point there's six minutes left in the duty timer, so....

[Okamimaru]

Ridorana this morning-
How we made it through to the end I'll never know... healers were not paying attention or something... one kept spamming broil while we had 3 dps dead due to not getting heals between Aoes... DRG kept linking to the undergeared RDM... when the healers weren't too busy DPSing to heal they were dead on the floor... I got more help from the healers in other alliances than my own... I spend half the last 2 bosses dead on the floor because apparently their broil was more important than resing the actual dps...

[Corue]

I had a BLM in an Alex farm party who was at 70 with an i210 weapon, unaugmented Shire left side and NQ 255 crafted right side. Their rotation consisted of spamming Fire until they ran out of MP, transposing and spamming Blizzard III until their mp was full and then transposing again. I had to ask them to use Enochian and their IV spells and even then they had to repeatedly reuse Enochian because they couldn't keep it up.

I was baffled. I'm not mad or anything, I'm just seriously confused as to how someone gets to 70 without understanding the basics of the job.